hit on

The weather was so nice today I decided to go to walk to the Elementary School, that is close to our house, and have Savannah ride her bike. I wasn't sure how she would do because it is kind of far for a little girls but I thought I would give it a try. At first she was a little slow and was getting used to breaking but once she figured it out she was off and riding.

We went though the new neighborhood and empty lot area to get there so we wouldn't be on the main road with no sidewalks... as we were walking through there was a boy in a Lighting McQueen power wheels car with one had on the steering wheel and a Pepsi in the other hand cruzin around...when he came over to us I smiled and said, "Hey, nice car."

"got a good deal only 100 miles" he says.

"Wow, cool"

he starts riding along side of us trying to act cool and spills some of his Pepsi, "hey you spilled your Pepsi on ya."

"dang" he says and wipes it off with his hand, but that slows him down and we are still walking so he speeds up to us again and looks at Savannah and says "Hey nice glasses" in a smooth voice while nodding his head.



Savannah looks at me with a smile and a questioning look on her face, "tell him thank you", "thanks" she says. Then he starts cutting her off...this kid is cracking me up...he is hitting on my 4 year old daughter, while she is riding a bike, with a helmet and sunglasses...yea she is looking good.

"So where you goin'?" he asks in his smooth voice.

"Over to the park."

"At my school"

"Yep"

"are you going to be long?"

"we will be there for a little while"

"are you coming back this way?"

"yea, we will be coming back." (this kid is great, I could of talked to him all day, I was laughing the whole time).

So as we are crossing the street he follows us over and tries to cut Savannah off so I say,"Hey I hope you have insurance." :)

"I have my drivers license, I am 5 (shakes his head), 6... I mean 10." (like that makes a difference). When I first saw him I thought he was about 5 or 6 but when he would get out of his car every time he ran in to something (and say "damn") he had to get out to back it up, he was pretty tall.

I was just smiling and laughing the whole time, this kid was a crack up.

We must have passed his boundary line because he finally he said bye and started back home...down the middle of the road, while a big diesel truck drove behind him waiting for him to get out of the road... he really thought he was in 10 and could drive like an adult.


We didn't go home that way...I didn't have time to talk.

park

Here are some pictures at the park. It was a great day so I thought it would be great exercise and fun for the kids to walk to the park... it was wonderful...I am going to have to do that more often, that is if the weather would stay nice. But not only did I get exercise and happy kids, I got sunburned, not bad, but I got a little color and it makes my fat look better.

visitors

Grandpa and Grandma Gardner came to visit us this past weekend.

They flew in Friday morning and left tonight at 7. The weather was nice on Friday and today but the other days were not so great... it snowed Sunday and was still cold Monday but we still had lots of fun.

We played outside on Friday, swam and went to dinner.

Saturday we watched Conference, took naps, and took a ride out to Saylorville Lake and dam We had never been there before, it was really fun. Then while Jason and my dad went to dinner and the Priesthood Session of Conference, my mom and I took the girls to the mall for dinner and to play at the play area and see the Easter Bunny.

Sunday we watched Conference, colored, did puzzles (Savannah loves doing puzzles now and can do them all by herself, etc... not to much to do while it is snowing.

Monday we ran, swam, errands, went to the Easter Train at the mall and then Jason and I went on a date (dinner AND a movie) while my parents watched BOLT with our kids and put them to bed. :)

Tuesday we ran errands, picked Savannah up from preschool and showed grandpa and grandma around the preschool, rode bikes, watched Madagascar2 had two Easter Eggs hunts first the girls found the eggs with candy, cleaned them out and the hide the Easter eggs for grandpa and grandma to find (someone got ripped off).

Then the hardest part came when we had to say bye. We had a great time hanging out with our grandpa and grandma and we miss them already.

Thank you mom and dad for taking the time to come visit. WE LOVE YOU!

Dad's Day

Today was Dad's Day at preschool (aka bring your dad to school day). We weren't sure if Jason would be able to get if off to go so we didn't make a big deal about it until Tuesday when the doctor Jason is working with in Family Practice told him it would be fine if he came in later that day. YEAH!

We told Savannah that Jason could go and she was so excited and started laughing (something she does when she gets excited). Wednesday morning she came in our room and asked me if it was Dad's day, when I told her no, she said she had dreamed about it and was so excited. So needless to say this morning when she got up she couldn't get out the door fast enough.

They had a great time together!

Jason even got to read the book and when I told him how "lucky" he was Savannah looked at me and said "I was lucky too."

"Why," I said, "because your dad read the book?"

"Yep, and no one else's did." she said.

(thanks for the picture Andrea and Steve for taking it.)

pictures

This picture is for my siblings,

HERE IT IS!
the wagon I bought 11 years ago from the Amish on our trip back East. I finally put it together.

"Madilynn and the Great Escape"

(Madilynn and Olivia)

"If this isn't love..."

warm weather

Yeah for Warm Weather!

It has been nice weather here in Iowa and we have been taking advantage of it. It rainnded this morning but never really got cold so went out to play this afternoon.

Olivia LOVES being outside the second you tell her to get her shoes she starts getting excited and runs out the door as soon as it opens.

It helps my mood too, I love how it stays light outside later.

get away!

(view from our room)

This past weekend we decided to get away. Jason got off early on Friday so we decieded to go up to Kings Pointe at Storm Lake. I saw it a month ago on the internet and then some friends went and said it was fun so we pack up and went for a quick get away.

It was a beautiful hotel that has only been open for a few years. It sits on a lake, Storm Lake, which is still frozen a little bit but looked beautiful when we arrived at sunset. The hotel has an indoor and outdoor waterpark, we obviously only went to the indoor one but would love to go back in the summer for the outdoor park. It was a great quick get away and the girls loved it. It was fun to watch the girls play. Savannah was like a mermaid (not a fish) and loved when I called her one. She had her life jacket on and just went and did her own thing. Madi liked but was a little scared, she loved the waterside but they only let her go down once because she was too little. Olivia did okay she didn't mind the water as long as she wasn't getting her face wet. Jason was just like a kid, he rode on the slides, sprayed kids with the water, and played basketball. And I just enjoyed being together as a family and watching everyone have a great time.

We wish the weather would have been better on Saturday so we could have gone on a walk by the lake and played at the park but it was raining when we woke up and it was really cold so maybe next time.

If any of you live here and would like a fun get away you should try it out.

http://www.kingspointeresort.com/